Provided is a workpiece conveying system configured to convey a sheet-like workpiece to a downstream step, including: a workpiece conveyor configured to lift through attraction holding, by a workpiece holding unit, an uppermost workpiece W of a stack, and convey the uppermost workpiece W of the stack to the downstream step one by one; and a conveyed workpiece number detector configured to detect the number of workpieces W held by the workpiece holding unit at a detection timing, at which the workpiece W held and raised by the workpiece holding unit in accordance with a normal workpiece conveying operation performed by the workpiece conveyor reaches an upper limit position of raising the workpiece W, and at which a moving speed component of the workpiece W in a raising direction is 0.

A nervous system emulator engine includes working computational models of the vertebrate nervous system to generate lifelike animal behavior in a robot. These models include functions representing several anatomical features of the vertebrate nervous system, such as spinal cord, brainstem, basal ganglia, thalamus and cortex. The emulator engine includes a hierarchy of controllers in which controllers at higher levels accomplish goals by continuously specifying desired goals for lower-level controllers. The lowest levels of the hierarchy reflect spinal cord circuits that control muscle tension and length. Moving up the hierarchy into the brainstem and midbrain/cortex, progressively more abstract perceptual variables are controlled. The nervous system emulator engine may be used to build a robot that generates the majority of animal behavior, including human behavior. The nervous system emulator engine may also be used to build working models of nervous system functions for clinical experimentation.

An exoskeleton system includes a first exoskeleton unit configured to support a first body part, a second exoskeleton unit configured to support a second body part, and a control device. The first exoskeleton unit and the second exoskeleton unit are mechanically decoupled from each other. The control device is configured to control, based on a control model, at least one of the first exoskeleton unit and the second exoskeleton unit. The control model is based on a multibody system that models the first exoskeleton unit, the second exoskeleton unit, and at least one of the first body part and the second body part.

Provided is a program generation device capable of automatically generating a route program which takes into account the amount of bending when the tip of a robot abuts against a workpiece. This program generation device is provided with: an acquisition unit that acquires route data indicating a route to be followed by the tip of the robot with respect to an object; a detection unit that detects a pressing force for pressing the tip of the robot to the object; a calculation unit that calculates the amount of misalignment of the followed route caused by bending of the tip of the robot, on the basis of the pressing force detected by the detection unit and a prescribed constant; and a generation unit that automatically generates a route program for controlling a moving route of the tip of the robot, on the basis of the route data acquired by the acquisition unit and the amount of misalignment calculated by the calculation unit.

A cleaning robot includes a top cover, a bottom cover provided below the top cover, traveling parts provided in the bottom cover, a suction module provided in the bottom cover to suck in foreign materials on the ground, a recessed part firmed to be recessed inward between the top cover and the bottom cover, and a first sensor located in the recessed part.

The method includes the steps of: detecting a part, of a surface of a target, that is located on an inner circumferential side of a predetermined circle centered on a rotation axis and passing the target, by an object detection sensor, at plural rotation positions when at least one of a rotation position of the target about the rotation axis on a substrate placement portion and a rotation position of a detection area about a robot reference axis is changed; calculating a quantity correlated with an index length representing a distance from the robot reference axis to the target when the target is detected by the object detection sensor, for each rotation position; and calculating the positional relationship between the robot reference axis and the rotation axis on the basis of, among the rotation positions, the one at which the quantity correlated with the index length is maximized or minimized.

The present disclosure may provide an auto-teaching method and apparatus using a distance measuring sensor a semiconductor manufacturing facility having a transfer robot including the same, and a substrate processing apparatus including a test substrate according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, may include: a test substrate connected to a robot arm and entering a processing apparatus in a first predetermined direction; a distance measuring sensor connected to the test substrate, and measuring a distance from the processing apparatus in the first direction while scanning the processing apparatus in a predetermined second direction; and a position control unit determining a region in which a substrate may enter the processing apparatus in the second direction, based on predetermined processing apparatus-related information and a measured result of the distance measuring sensor.

One object determining system comprising: an air ejection device, configured to eject air; a distance detecting circuit, configured to detect distances between an electronic device comprising the object determining system and at least one location of an object when the air ejection device ejects air to the object; and a determining circuit, configured to determine a type of the object according to variations of the distances.

A system and method that automatically resolves conflicts among sensor information in a sensor fusion robot system. Such methods can accommodate converging ambiguous and divergent sensor information in a manner that can allow continued, and relatively accurate, robotic operations. The processes can include handling sensor conflict via sensor prioritization, including, but not limited, prioritization based on the particular stage or segment of the assembly operation when the conflict occurs, overriding sensor data that exceeds a threshold value, and/or prioritization based on evaluations of recent sensor performance, predictions, system configuration, and/or historical information. The processes can include responding to sensor conflicts through comparisons of the accuracy of workpiece location predictions from different sensors during different assembly stages in connection with arriving at a determination of which sensor(s) is providing accurate and reliable predictions.

A robot including a plurality of joints each configured to rotate about an axis line; a torque sensor S1 configured to detect torque about the axis line of a target joint as one of the plurality of joints; angle information detection units configured to detect information related to a rotation angle of each of the joints about the axis line; a torque change amount estimation unit configured to estimate a change amount of the torque detected by the torque sensor due to a load other than the torque about the axis line of the target joint based on the detected information; and a correction unit configured to correct the torque detected by the torque sensor by using the estimated change amount.